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of the feathers being narrower ; the four middle ones are green, 

 with a reddish or coppery tinge ; the three outer white, with an 

 oblong copper gold spot on the outer web, near the end, and on the 

 inner webs some transverse distant lines ; the wings are shorter in 

 proportion than in the Gilded Cuckow ; legs brown black. 



The above bird was a male, and killed by Klaas, the attendant 

 on M. Levaillant, near the River Platte, but not more than one met 

 with ; it had a different kind of note from the Gilded Species. M. 

 Levaillant observed a second specimen in the Jardin des Plantes, in 

 Paris, which came from Senegal. 



46.-GORGEOUS CUCKOW. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an 

 inch, brown, bent, with the point sharp ; plumage above fine rich 

 gilded green, with a gloss of copper ; forehead, and before the eye, 

 white, with a streak or two of black ; behind the eye one of white, 

 ending in a point ; all beneath, from chin to vent, white, with here 

 and there a dusky marking on the neck and sides of the body ; under 

 the wings some transverse, rufous-brown ones ; down the middle of 

 the wing a long white streak, crossed with rufous brown lines ; the 

 quills blue or green, in different lights, the outer one spotted white 

 on the outer edge, one-third from the base; tail cuneiform, blue 

 green, the outer feathers spotted with white, on the outer margins ; 

 legs brown. 



Described from the drawings of Mr. Woodford. 



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